Dingell Demands Recall of Iraqi Official for Slur on Mrs. Johnson Congressman John D. Dingell, in a statement issued this week, TORONTO, ONT., (JTA) — demanded the recall of Iraqi A 17-year-old high school stu- Charge d'Affaires Najdat Fathi dent who staged a mock hold-up against a bearded Hassidic rabbi was given a suspended sentence on a charge of common assult and was put on probation for one year. The boy, Gary Wayne Sownby, had stuck a toy pistol into the ribs of Rabbi Mayer Grunwald who was walking along the street here. Sownby was aided by a younger accomplice whose name was withheld because of his age and who has since been tried in Juvenile Court here. The incident received prominent play in Toronto newspapers because it coincided with the recent wave of swastika daubings. Safwat for his slur on Mrs. Lyndon Johnson and for her ac- ceptance of the honorary chair- manship of the Israel Ambas- sador's Ball held in Washington Sunday night. Rep. Dingell declared: "I know I speak for the ma- jority of our American people in demanding the recall of Najdat Fathi Safwat, Iraqi Charge d'Affaires, for his com- munication to the distinguished wife of the Vice President of the United States calling upon her to withdraw her name as honorary chairman of the Israeli Ambassador's Ball to be held here in Washington honor- ing the independence of our sister republic of Israel. "To say that this is highly im- proper is an understatement. "It is wrongful interference into domestic affairs of the United States by a guest which placing one million Arabs from requires that both his invitation their homeland . . to remain in the United States "Not only is this offensive to and our hospitality be with- the lovely lady, Mrs. Johnson, drawn. but it is equally offensive to "Mr. Safwat not only had the many other Americans on the temerity to call upon the lovely honorary committee, including wife of our Vice President, Mrs. the writer." Lyndon B. Johnson, to request that she withdraw as honorary Remember Father chairman of the ball, sponsored Sunday, June 16 by the Ambassador of Israel, Avraham Harman, and held by with a Gift from citizens to honor the State of Israel and to celebrate the tra- ditional American-Israeli friend- "Father-in-law" ship, but this individual has "Father-to-be" gone further and has made in- "Father-of-the-bride" excusable comments about Mrs. "Grandfather-Gr. Gr. Father" Johnson. Mr. Safwat's original and letter to the wife of our Vice President was insulting in the DEAR OLD DAD ! extreme and constituted not Bottle 'n' Gift only meddling in American in- c t MAX BURNS % REP. JOHN D. DINGELL ternal policy but also an affront President Shazar * * * to another nation with whom Is Made Honorary we maintain friendly and warm Citizen of Jerusalem relations when he said 'We can- SDD - SDM JERUSALEM, (JTA). — Presi- not forget that the State of LI 1-4428—LI 1-9575 dent Zalman Shazar was made Israel is based upon the usurp- an honorary citizen of Jerusa- ing of another Nation's land by 24695 Coolidge at 10 Mile Rd. Open Every Nite 'Til 11 WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Sec- protocol and propriety. He said force. • It was founded by dis- lem in ceremonies in the Muni- ■■■■•••■■ cipal Chamber attended by retary of State Dean Rusk re- in a letter to Rusk that "our Prime Minister David Ben-Gur- ceived a formal request from government officials and their ion, Knesset Speaker Kaddish Sen. Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania families should not be subject Luz, cabinet ministers, Chief Republican, to investigate the to such harrassment from a rep- Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim and other "harrassment" by Arab diplo- resentative of a foreign gov- mats in Washington by Mrs. ernment." dignitaries. • CALL Moshe Sharett, who addressed Lyndon B. Johnson, wife of the The senator referred speci- • • the gathering in his capacity as Vice-President, because she fically to a letter from Najdat chairman of the Jewish Agency served as honorary chairman of Safwat, Iraqi Embassy Charge • • executive, paid warm tribute to an Israel Bond function. Detroit Phone: Birmingham Phone: • Scott held that the Arab ac- d'Affaires, which denounced • the personality of the President. JO 6-1490 Mrs. Johnson's participation in MI 6-2170 tion was beyond the realm of Hitherto, Sharett declare d, the pro-Israel celebration. He ? ••••ee•e•teeesseee•tooe••eemseoes••emi! • "President Shazar had three told the Secretary of State, "I titles = Jew, Zionist, Israeli. urge specifically that you in- To these was added a fourth — Bnai Zion Parley vestigate the matter with a view Jerusalemite, the crown of all." Backs Negro Fight to determining whether the Shazar responded warmly, ex- MONTICELLO, N. Y., (JTA) Iraqi official has not over- pressing his appreciation for the WITH —The 54th annual convention s t e p p e d the boundaries of honor. of Bnai Zion concluded here proper conduct rightfully ex- with the adoption of a resolution pected of such officials." AT State Department officials affirming the Zionist fraternal order's "wholehearted support said the matter would be taken of the heroic struggle now being under study but noted that no ALLEN CHARNES waged throughout this land by formal complaint had been made TI 6-1122 our Negro fellow Americans to by Vice-President Johnson. achieve just and lawful rights." Norman G. Levine was re- elected national president. Other resolutions adopted by the 400 delegates called for rati- fication by the U. S. Congress ••••••• of the United Nations Genocide S"?. . :um?. l'zvaliur.s• Convention outlawing mass- murder and enactment of Presi- dent Kennedy's Medicare pro- Knows his FOR THE YOUNG gram. mountains .. . Ambassador Michael Comay, head of Israel's delegation to I the United Nations, addressed the delegates on the current sit- for the young, takes the reader into the life of one uation in the Middle East. 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